Worcester will hold a hand recount of its city council-at-large race this week, according to City Clerk Niko Vangjeli.

The recount was triggered after Jermoh Kamara submitted the necessary paperwork and signatures to the city clerk’s office, Vangjeli told MassLive.

Kamara, the president of the Massachusetts Organization of African Descendants , ran for city councilor-at-large but was not one of the top six vote-earners who were elected to the council.

The city’s charter states that the six councilor-at-large candidates who receive the most votes will be elected to serve.

Kamara placed seventh with 9,334 votes, 23 votes fewer than Councilor-at-Large Morris Bergman’s 9,357 votes.

The recount will last four days, starting Nov. 20 and ending Nov. 23, according to the city clerk’s offic

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